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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Bruce JacksonPublisher: State University of New York Press Imprint: Excelsior Editions Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.227kg ISBN: 9781438496566ISBN 10: 1438496567 Pages: 370 Publication Date: 01 February 2024 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction to the 2024 Edition Preface to the 1974 Edition The Toast World THE TOASTS BADMEN, CRIME, AND JAIL 1. Stackolee 2. Stackolee in Hell 3. Brock Hankton 4. Dolomite 5. Jesse James 6. Boothill McCoy 7. Herman from the Shark-Tooth Shore 8. My Reflection (The Wanderer’s Trail; All You Tough Guys that Thinks You’re Wise) 9. Feeble Old Man (Feeble Old Man and a Kid Named Dan) 10. Subject to a Fall 11. Derringer Youngblood 12. Satan’s Playground of Hell 13. Eddie LeDoux 14. Limpty Lefty McCree 15. I Was Sittin’ in the Jail to Do a Stretch of Time 16. They Can’t Do That 17. Life of a Junkie PIMPS, WHORES, AND OTHER LOVERS AND FRIENDS 18. Joe the Grinder and G.I. Joe 19. Hobo Ben 20. Treacherous Breast 21. Three Whores Settin’ Down in Boston 22. Pimping Sam (Wicked Nell; The Pimp) 23. Hustlin’ Dan 24. Ping Pong Joe 25. Don’t Look So Downhearted, Buddy (Don’t Feel So Downhearted, Buddy) 26. Sweet Lovin’ Rose 27. Strange, Strange Things 28. You Told Me a Lie 29. Cocaine Nell 30. L.A. Street 31. The Lame and the Whore 32. Toledo Slim 33. Pretty Pill 34. Dogass Pimp 35. Ain’t It a Bitch? 36. If You See My Little Girl in Denver (Lady Liberty) 37. Corner of Forty-seventh and South Park (Little Old Wicked Nell) 38. Little Girl in the Gambler’s Nest (While Playing Short Coin) 39. Winehead Girl FREAKS AND SUPERSEX 40. Dance of the Freaks 41. Freaks’ Ball (Twenty-Two-Twenty; Bulldaggers’ Hall) 42. ’Flicted Arm Pete (Pisspot Pete) 43. Casey Jones 44. Cocaine Shorty 45. Herbert Hoover 46. The Voodoo Queen 47. Marie 48. Annabelle Jones SIGNIFYING AND POOLSHOOTING MONKEY 49. Signifying Monkey 50. Poolshooting Monkey 51. Partytime Monkey THE TITANIC TOASTS 52. Titanic MISCELLANEOUS NARRATIVES 53. Ups on the Farm 54. I Got a Job Down in Florida for Croft 55. Once I Lived the Life of a Millionaire (Down and Out) 56. Life’s a Funny Old Proposition 57. Hoboes’ Convention 58. Junkies’ Ball 59. Junkies’ Heaven 60. Hophead Willie 61. Willie the Weeper 62. T.B. Bees 63. The Chinz 64. The Fly 65. The Alphabet 66. The Seven Wise Men 67. Get In out of the Rain 68. Drinkin’ 69. Convict’s Prayer 70. Pearl Harbor 71. Hitler, You Lied to Me 72. I Used to Be a Cowboy 73. I Woke Up this Morning with a Hard On 74. Ringo 75. Through the Keyhole in the Door SHORT VERSES AND DRINKING TOASTS 76. My Uncle Sam 77. My Uncle Had a Old Gray Horse 78. Mary Had a Little Lamb 79. Miss Lookingood 80. Bend Your Back 81. The Rooster Crowed 82. The He-Frog 83. Running through the Jungle 84. Swinging through the Trees 85. Pussy 86. A Girl Told Me 87. Cock Is 88. The Ford 89. Forty-Nine Ford 90. Old Cods 91. I Used to Could Diddle All Night Long 92. Well Here’s to the Fool that Writes upon the Shithouse Walls 93. Here’s to the Lady with the Little Red Shoes 94. Well if I Had a Dog that Could Piss this Stuff 95. And Here’s to the Duck that Swim the Pond 96. Well Here’s to the Crane that Flew down the Lane 97. Here’s to You, Mag, You Dirty Hag (Motherfuck a Woman Lay Flat on Her Back) 98. And May Your Life Become Unlivable, Boy 99. Knockin’ down Chairs and Slammin’ Doors 100. Hickory Wood is the Best of Wood 101. When I Begin to Think When I Was a Young Man and in My Prime 102. This Is to the Women of Texas 103. Talk Some Shit, Richard Bibliography Index Index of First LinesReviews"Praise for the Original Edition ""A brilliant, groundbreaking work in both the collection and analysis of African American oral culture. Indispensable."" — Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Harvard University ""A stone cold classic!"" — Robin D.G.Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination ""Funny as all get out, full of biting wit and dazzling wordplay, this book drops more science than Einstein while proving the genius of black folk who created meaning and defended their lives through signifying words."" — Michael Eric Dyson, author of Mercy, Mercy Me: The Art, Loves & Demons of Marvin Gaye ""These poems are the source of rap."" — Amiri Baraka, author of Blues People" Author InformationBruce Jackson is SUNY Distinguished Professor and the James Agee Professor of American Culture at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. His numerous books include The Story is True: The Art and Meaning of Telling Stories, Second Edition, Revised and Expanded; Ways of the Hand: A Photographer's Memoir; and Voices from Death Row (with Diane Christian), all published by SUNY Press. He lives in Buffalo, New York. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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